Jerry Brown thought he’d hung up the phone after leaving a voicemail last month — but he hadn’t. As the LA Times reports, the ensuing recording caught a Brown aide pondering how to go after Meg Whitman for cutting a deal on police pensions: “What about saying she’s a whore?”
Westboro Baptist Church — the Koran-burning, military-funeral protesting Kansas congregation — actually supports the building of the “Ground Zero Mosque.” A member of the church, which had its day at the Supreme Court this week, went so far as to tell TPM that opposing the Park51 project in Manhattan is “un-American.”
White House confirms to TPM that Jim Jones is resigning as national security adviser to President Obama and that his replacement will be the deputy national security adviser Tom Donilon. The official announcement will come at 1 p.m.
Last night on MSNBC, Lou Dobbs got a chance to address the report in The Nation that undocumented workers were employed by contractors doing work for Dobbs on his property. Appearing with Dobbs was The Nation reporter on the story, Isabel MacDonald. Watch.
Tea Party to Eric Cantor: What do you mean no government shutdown?
Tests of the uniform of that Arizona sheriff’s deputy — whose tale of a desert shootout with drug smugglers raised the eyebrows of forensic experts — are consistent with his account of what happened.
When you look at the ups and downs in the congressional generic, some of the wiggliness is a matter of which pollsters release their data when. But as you can see in the graph after the jump the spread has popped back in the GOP’s direction over the last few days. Read More
Christine O’Donnell’s self-proclaimed “number one” qualification for U.S. Senate is an 8-day fellowship on the Constitution at the conservative Claremont Institute in California. Chuck DeVore, who lost the GOP primary for U.S. Senate this year, attended the program a few years ago and defends it: “People would often wonder if I was a constitutional attorney because of the intense training.”
There are a lot of Dems in a lot more danger in November than Ohio Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D). But whatever worry she may have had about reelection, I think that’s over now that her opponent Rich Iott has been revealed as an avid Nazi reenactor.
When I first heard about this story, my first thought was whether this was just analogous to people who do Civil War reenactments, which is pretty troubling on some levels but pretty commonplace around the country. But when you read the descriptions of the Nazi party on their website, it’s rather positive. “Germany,” reads the site’s history section, “headed a strong movement in Europe to actively campaign (politically and through warfare) against the ideals of Bolshevist Communism. This culminated in 1941, when the German armed forces were pitted against the very home of Bolshevism, Soviet Russia.”